Description
This 1980 book examines witchcraft beliefs and experiences in the Bocage, a rural area of western France. It also introduced a powerful theoretical attitude towards the progress of the ethnographer's enquiries, suggesting that a full knowledge of witchcraft involves being 'caught up' in it oneself. In the Bocage, being bewitched is to be 'caught' in a sequence of misfortunes. According to those who are bewitched, the culprit is someone in the neighbourhood: the witch, who can cast a spell with a word, a touch or a look, and whose 'power' comes from a book of spells inherited from an ancestor. Only a professional magician, an 'unwitcher', has any chance of breaking the succession of misfortunes which befall those who have been bewitched. He undertakes a battle of magic with the suspected witch, a battle which is eventually fatal.
Author: Jeanne Favret-Saada
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 01/31/1981
Pages: 284
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.64d
ISBN13: 9780521297875
ISBN10: 0521297877
BISAC Categories:
- Body, Mind & Spirit | Magick Studies
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
Author: Jeanne Favret-Saada
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 01/31/1981
Pages: 284
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.64d
ISBN13: 9780521297875
ISBN10: 0521297877
BISAC Categories:
- Body, Mind & Spirit | Magick Studies
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
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